科技英语自由辩论中英文对照

1 正：古代的环境问题不是很明显，环境问题是依附于经济发展的，

1反：经济发展带来了环境问题，现在的环境问题已经很严重。那么经济发展的最终目的是什么，是否是为了人类的更好的生存？

My dear opponent has just admitted the fact that the economic growth brings up many environmental problems. Now the environmental problems are so serious that they have threatened our survival. so what is the ultimate goal of economic development? It is for the better survival of our human beings, whether or not?

2正：是为了人类更好的生存，经济发展为人类的生存提供丰富的物质基础，经济的发展也能为解决环境问题提供保证，世界各国为环保问题投入了大量资金：例子

2反：美国是世界上经济最发达的国家，但是依然被环境问题所困扰。对方辩友提到那大量的资金，如果没有造成环境问题，大量资金根本就不用投入。

As we all know, the United States is the world's most economically developed countries, however, it still has environmental problems. My dear opponent just said that we can make more investment to solving the environmental problems. What I want to say that, if we have protected environment at first, that investment is not needed.

3正：事实上环境问题是已经存在了的问题，我们要做的是优化经济结构，进行可持续发展，发展绿色经济。

3反：具体要怎样优化经济结构？Could you tell us how to optimize the economic structure, my dear opponents?

4正：主要的思想就是发展经济的时候考虑对环境的影响，并把影响降低到最小。对环境问题的研究和解决需要技术支持，高科技研究需要大量资金支持

4反：我们现在讨论的是经济环境谁更优先。有些环境问题不是用钱就能解决的！而且环境问题是由于人类先污染后治理带来的。现在我们就是要优先考虑环境，避免类似的问题在发生What we are debating on is which is prior, economic development or environment. Many environmental problems can not be solved by money. For example, species extinction. Therefore, we should put environment at first, we can’t go the “treatment after pollution” road any more.

5正：现在经济问题这么严重，举例子非洲，让人饿着肚子进行环保是不现实的。只有人民生活水平提高，才会有精力和能力投入到环保问题中去

5反：我们并不反对发展经济，只是要放缓发展经济的速度，饥饿问题可以靠发达国家的人道主义援助来解决，We don’t opposed economic development. We just want to let the pace of economic development slow down a little. We should put more attention into the environmental protection. Poverty can be solved by the humanitarian assistance from developed countries.

6正：不发达国家不能只依靠外来施舍，说到底要自身发展经济来提高国力，这样才能从根本上解决饥饿问题。而发达国家也是通过发展经济强大起来的。、

6反：现在环境问题已经严重到没有时间让我们先发展经济再解决环境问题了~在过去的400年中，全世界共灭绝哺乳动物58种.估计从1990-2020年由于砍伐热带森林引起的物种灭绝将使世界上的物种减少5%-15%，即每天减少50-150种。你们举例说物种灭绝，就在我们讨论的时候，亚洲羚羊、亚洲野骆驼和利比里亚猞猁等100多种野生动物的数量在减少。But now the environmental problems have been so serious that there is no time for us to pay more attention to economic development than environmental protection.if so ,we would lose more. In the past four hundred years, there are in all 58 kinds of mammals dying out worldwide. It is estimated that from 1990-2020 species extinction due to the reduction of tropical forests will make the world's species decrease 5 to 15 %, namely everyday 50-150.While we are talking this topics , the number of Asian antelope, Asia wild camels and Liberia lynx etc 100 kinds of wild